Improvement in the manufacture of toy chairs



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DORAS A. STILES, OF MERIDEN, ASSIGNOR TO MERRIAM MANUFACTUR- INGCOMPANY, OF DURHAM, CONNECTICUT.

lMPPtOVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTUPL OF TOY CHAIRS'.

Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 43,16l, dated June 14,1864.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DORAS A. STILES, of Meriden, county of New Haven,and State of Connecticut, have invented `certain new and usefulImprovements in Chairs; and I do hereby declare that the same isdescribed and represented in the followinglspecitication and drawings;and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use, I will proceedto describe its construction, referring to the. drawings, in which thesame letters indicate like parts in e ich ofthe figures.

The nature of this improvement will be clearly understood from thespecitication and drawings, in which- Figures l and 2 are perspectiveelevations. Figs. 3 and 4 show all parts of a chair as eut from a blanksheet of metal.

a is the bottom of a chair. b is the back of a chair. c are the legs ofa chair. d are the rockers of a chair. e is the line showin g Where themetal is turned or bent to form the legs and back tf the chair. (SeeFigs. 3 and 4.)

It is evident that in the manufacture of this article more or less scrappieces of metal will accumulate, and much of it will be of such size a-swill make the bottom a with the back b, Without the legs c, or thebottom a with one or With both pairs of legs, c, without the back b,while the still smaller pieces will make the remaining deficient parts,which may be soldered onto the bottom in the usual way. In

this way even a great saving is made of both stock and labor, but astill greater saving is made when the whole is cut from a blank sheet ofmetal, as shown in Figs. 3 and et.

The object ot' this improvi ment is to produce a neat, cheap, and usefultoy chair for children.

The advantage which is believed will be derived from this improvement isin the great

